2 years old bedtime battles

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2 years old bedtime battles

Laura P(460)

Posted on 02-03-2016 at 4.15AM

From day 1 my lg has been a brilliant sleeper would often cry to be put down to sleep rather than picked up and from early weeks was in a great sleep routine by herself till she started sleeping through. She was diagnosed with coeliac disease last summer aged 18 months and generally speaking would only wake if she was ill in the night, even then we could strip her down bath her and put her back to bed for her to go straight off. Fast forward to December and she suddenly started waking in the night on and off. We switched her from cot to bed thinking it may help (it did with our eldest when she was ready to move) after a few weeks she really started kicking off about bedtime, as soon as bed is even mentioned she'd start crying. We're now at the point where she's up and down out of bed pretty much till she passes out due to exhaustion (I've lost count of how long it takes or how frequently I put her back in bed) and then we start again at stupid o'clock in the night. Sometimes it's a quick pop back in bed, others like tonight we're at around 45mins and counting, just when I think she's nodded off she's up at the gate. I'm at the end of my tether with it (I also have a 5 month old who's only just figured out she can sleep longer than 2hrs at a time and if she by some miracle sleeps longer one of the other 2 come in insisting they can't sleep 😫). I've been trying rapid return for 2 weeks now and there's been no improvement in her settling or sleeping through which we normally would have seen by now. Help!
I mention she's coeliac as I know there can be a link with poor sleep though she's always been good and this problem started a good 5 months post diagnosis so I'm possibly clutching at straws.

From day 1 my lg has been a brilliant sleeper would often cry to be put down to sleep rather than picked up and from early weeks was in a great sleep routine by herself till she started sleeping through. She was diagnosed with coeliac disease last summer aged 18 months and generally speaking would only wake if she was ill in the night, even then we could strip her down bath her and put her back to bed for her to go straight off. Fast forward to December and she suddenly started waking in the night on and off. We switched her from cot to bed thinking it may help (it did with our eldest when she was ready to move) after a few weeks she really started kicking off about bedtime, as soon as bed is even mentioned she'd start crying. We're now at the point where she's up and down out of bed pretty much till she passes out due to exhaustion (I've lost count of how long it takes or how frequently I put her back in bed) and then we start again at stupid o'clock in the night. Sometimes it's a quick pop back in bed, others like tonight we're at around 45mins and counting, just when I think she's nodded off she's up at the gate. I'm at the end of my tether with it (I also have a 5 month old who's only just figured out she can sleep longer than 2hrs at a time and if she by some miracle sleeps longer one of the other 2 come in insisting they can't sleep 😫). I've been trying rapid return for 2 weeks now and there's been no improvement in her settling or sleeping through which we normally would have seen by now. Help! I mention she's coeliac as I know there can be a link with poor sleep though she's always been good and this problem started a good 5 months post diagnosis so I'm possibly clutching at straws.